So I bought this game, No More Heroes, for the Wii several days ago and beat it in about 3 days. Not very long but I really enjoyed it. You play the part of Travis Touchdown, an oddball otaku who won a lightsaber, er, I mean beam katana, through some kind of online auction and decides to try contract killing. He takes a job to kill some guy named Helter Skelter and succeeds. Apparently this puts him at rank #11 in the US Assassins Association (UAA) and some French hottie he meets at a bar encourages him to work his way up to number 1. The gameplay follows a fairly standard routine. To begin each rank up mission you need to pay a substantial sum to the UAA (the first fee was around $50,000, the last was $550,000) which means you need to go make some money, and making money in this game is not immediately as easy as running out and killing some bad guys. First you take some demeaning part-time job, and then if you do well you’re offered an assassination gig. The part-time jobs ranged from coconut collecting to pumping gas to land mine removal. Once you have enough money, it’s off to your ranked fight, and once you’re done that, the whole cycle repeats itself, but don’t get me wrong, I really did enjoy the game. No sarcasm intended.

If you’re not content with my half-assed review though, just check out Yahtzee’s take on the game.

So for those of you that don’t know, I have a Wii (like most males, haw haw Wii/penis jokes are so funny) and the Wii now has WiiWare. One of the games available for WiiWare is LostWinds, which I had seen a trailer for a few months ago, and looked pretty good, so I figured for $10, why not. It was quite good, but unfortunately, it was also quite short, I beat it in a mere 4 hours, and I wasn’t even trying hard. The ending stated “to be continued”, which it pretty well had to because the story wasn’t near to being complete. It was akin to ending on chapter one of an eight chapter book. Otherwise though it was quite fun, not sure if I’d have spent the money if I’d known it would be so short, but then again, I’ve spent more than $10 on less than 4 hours of fun.

Edit: Additional link for LostWinds.

So I finally got my grubby mitts on a copy of Super Smash Brothers: Brawl. Only had to wait almost 3 weeks from release date, sheesh. Oh well, I’ve been working so much lately I wouldn’t have been able to play it much anyway. Looks like I might actually get some time off for a bit though (fingers crossed, knock on wood, etc). For now, though, I think I’ll be going because it’s 06:46 hrs and I should probably get to sleep.

Quick note though, I did a bunch of little updates to the site, I believe it’s all XHTML 1.0 compatible (Edit: Scratch that, apparently I have a bunch of errors I wasn’t expecting. I guess I’m not allowed to nest <script> tags within <ul>’s. That sucks…), not that I’m really concerned about it, but it’s probably a good idea. I also added some nifty little bells and whistles here and there, like to the login dialog, and the sidebar menu. That’s all for now though, time to go.

From Smash Bros. Dojo:

Due to delays in the completion of Super Smash Bros. Brawl, we’ve had to change the release date of the game to Sunday, March 9th.

I deeply apologize to the people who have looked forward to playing the game for so long and ask that you hold on just a little longer. Thank you for your patience.

Goddamnit! And here I was, counting down the days to go until it was released. It would have been 22 days from today… now it’s 50. :(

This was definitely one of those WTF kind of dreams…

Scene: Nintendo Press Conference

Reporter: Mr. Miyamoto, some people are claiming that the remote-style controllers for your new Wii home video game system should actually be called Wii-motes. What do you have to say about this?

Miyamoto: Well, that is a cute name for it, but officially it is called a Wii Remote.

Reporter: And unofficially?

Miyamoto: Unofficially they are referred to as Strike Team Alpha!

Reporter: … Wha?

Miyamoto: That’s right! Each Wii-mote (it’s cute!) is actually a sentient device, awaiting my command to begin our hostile takeover!

Reporter: Hostile takeover!? Of what? Sony? Microsoft!?

Miyamoto: No you fool… The world! Bwahahahaha!

Yeah, sometimes I think I’m insane.

So yeah, I haven’t posted here in a while have I? I guess I should do something about that…

…

This is me doing something about that.

Anyway, yeah, I’m not dead, and the blog isn’t dead either, just comatose (the blog, not me, although when I’m asleep…). Call it hibernation for winter if that makes you feel better, although I’m really quite sure that what I say or do on my own personal blog really doesn’t have much bearing on how any of you (total of maybe 3 people) feel, and if it does – SEEK HELP. Immediately.

Anyway (I start a lot of sentences with “anyway”, did you notice that?) the reason that the blog has been so dead quiet is because I’ve been distracted (just like the title says) playing games (I believe the title mentions this as well). I bought Super Mario Galaxy for the Wii (wheeeee!) and it’s quite a bit of fun. I’m up at like 33 stars and I’ve been enjoying most of it. Also, I’ve been up at my friend’s place playing Assassin’s Creed (cus he gots da PS3, not me) like a MADMAN. I have to totally give him props, or cred, or whatever the cool kids are saying these days, because he’s totally let me monopolize his system for the last three days - enjoying the hell out of HIS game, which he hasn’t beaten, or barely even played – while he sits there watching or playing some DS game that he’s not as engrossed in as I am with Creed (which is what I’m calling it from now on because it’s shorter, although by adding this sentence to explain that fact I’ve kind of defeated the purpose). I’m currently up on the 7th assassination IIRC which means, to the best of my assumptive (yes that’s actually a word) knowledge, that I’m 2/3 of the way through the game, as it appears from the menus and such that there are a total of 9 assassinations, perhaps 10. I’ve not been collecting all the flags, as I’m dreadful at noticing them – I can’t count how many times I’ve been running down the street (in the game, I don’t run IRL [read: lazy]) and gone whizzing right past a flag just as Ed would look up from his game and go, “Flag.”
To which I’d stop my headlong rush through the crowd and say, “What? No way.. where?”
Then I’d meander back through the path I’d come and find the flag, sitting just barely off to the side, mocking me for not having noticed it – hell for not having picked it up by accident, I’ve done that a few times as well – when I ran past it not 10 seconds ago. At this point I’ll vent my frustration a little by killing some random guard, which may or may not set off all the surrounding guards, at which point I’ll either run away like a leetle monkey (?), or stick around and proceed to decimate my foes with my ability to counter every attack that comes my way – or get hit in the nuts when I try to grab (I need an adult!).

Shit, gotta wrap this up… uh… bye?

Yay! First Metroid Prime game I’ve beaten. Just couldn’t get the hang of the controls for the GameCube games (so I’ll probably never beat 1 & 2). At 99% completion too, only missed one missile tank, but I’ll be damned if I’m going to search through the entire freaking game to find it.

My Wii code: 7395 0901 7246 8853

And stuff.